The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-02-17
MISSING LINKS.
There are $1,000 women on tine D.


Queen Victoria's dessert service Of old
SeyreS-the finest in the worlds val
ued at s250.0O0.
Two rival companies will bid for the
French crown jewels, which are soon to
be offered for sale.
Unmounted photographs are the thing
for the library, even If they are not adj
mired and covered with dust.
Several influential Georgia citizens
are making an effort TO have the legis-
lature establish a state labor bureau.
The oldest bank building in this coun.
try is situated in Albany, n. Y. 1t was
erected in 1902. and has been occupied
by one concern ever since.
1t is reported that herd of buffaloes
are grazing within a radius of 100 miles
from Miles City, NJ. T. The cowboys
have so far kept all intruders away from
them.
As several clergyman are essential to
fashionable wedding ceremony AT
church. so. now. half dozen ladies are
required to assist" the hostess at re-
ception.
Prof Benjamin Apthorp Gould, the
eminent astronomer, is spending the
winter in Cambridge, Mass, occupying
a house adjoining that of his intimate
friend for years, Prof. G. NJ. Lane.
Hallam Tennvson. the laureate's eld-
est son, has set the old nursery story OF
Jack and the Beanstalk," in English
hexameters," to series of sketches
very rough ones-by the late Randolph
CaldecOtt.
A Deming, n. NJ. justice holds court
out of doors because the laws of the
territory, he says, do not provide for
justice office, and the fees will not per-
NIT the justice TO pay rent and have
anything left.
An Englishman who lately visited the
cemetery at Lisbon, where Fielding is
buried reports that the great nOvelist's
grave is uncared for and overgrown,
and the inscription in Some places al
most. Obliterated.
Newspaper interviewing is falling
into inuocuous desuetude at the capitol,
owing TO the fact that representatives
OF the local press have no security
against the reputation of their own
statements and those accredited to
others
NJ. Paul de Cassagnac can fight or
not as he pleases. An offended fellow
editor recently telegraphed to him, Il
shall have the honor 10 send YOU my
seconds tomorrow" and the fire-eatcr
cooly replied. You need not send
them, for | will not receive Them
According to local papers the trade in
oh lnnA-.halI- nt 60 al boc
almost ceased. A dealer who used to
receive a thousand tons of them every
wear from the coast OF Lower California
and shipped sixty or seventy tons by
every steamer, says the caprice of fash
ion and an over-stocked market have
DESTROYED the business.
In Philadelphia women make a good
living as professional hampers" They
contract to call each day and trim and
keep in perfect order the lamps of the
household. The metal, the chimneys,
the shades, and the wicks are kept im-
msculate and the oil fresh, and the re-
lief to the average housekeeper is worth
more than the slight fee required.
The Sioux Indians on the Pine Ridge
Agency have established 4 novel court
Tor the punishment of petty crimes. The
Chief Justice is the celebrated warrior,
Young an-Afraid-of-H Hs-Horses. HIS
associate reioices in the title of mo
Flesh. The court was established
about two years ago, and is reported to
have brought about the most excellent
results Recently, how yer, the men,
bers of the tribe discovered that the
court has no legal jurisdiction, and
now, when the Chief Justice solemnIv
sentences them TO Jail for the commits
sion of some misdemeanor, they coolly
snap their fingers at his Honor and walk
out of the court.
Economy in sending cable messages
is not always desirable. Relatives in
New York OF a lady of social celebrity
III Paris hearing she was i'll, cabled
that if she was not better they would
straightway sail, and asked for instruc-
lions what to do The answer came
mo better" Only this and nothing
more. The relatives sailed on the next
steamer. and their establishment WAS
great upon arriving in Paris 10 find the
supposed stricken lady giving dinner
party. The explanation, although
simple, was very annoying. The cable !
answer had been mo-" in response to
inquiry whether the relatives should
sail, and "Oetter' as to the lady's |
health. Economy and absence of
punctuation cost the party OF the sec !
ond part nearly a thousand dollars.
Years ago Dr. Edgar, a wealthy resi- |
dent of Grrenville, Pa, died and left |
Will. bequeathing his estate and personal |
property, which amounted TO large |
to ri int
OF tabernacle dedicated to spirituaism |
and free thought, and to be used by be-
lievers in that doctrine. The doctor |
himself was rather an eccentric charac- |
ter, so that this queer disposition of his |
estate occasioned nothing more than |
passing comment from his neighbors. !
Distant relatives, however, hearing of /
the matter, brought suit to break the |
will, and succeeded in having it set |
aside as illegal. The new-found heirs |
at once assumed charge of the property, |
and it is under their mans cement yet. |
A short time ago a lady arrived in |
Greenville from California to prosecute !
her suit. Much interest is manifested |
in the outcome of the case
A case of honesty that was best even |
as policy is related by writer in the
Fsirchild (Ma.) Journal of a young |
country lawyer that met last summer at |
Poland Spring. whittier he had gone |
with an invalid sister. rich old gentle
man from this city, who wanted an |
honest man TO send to Europe on an inn
pOrtant business mission. He thought |
this young lawyer would fill the bill. |
but proceeded to test him first. After |
gaining his confidence he told him of q
plan he had for making money by q
short but very dishonest method. The
young man listened attentively and .
then firmly declined to be party to
any such arrangement. In vain the /
old man pleaded that scores of men oc-
cupying high positions to-day had made /
their start in precisely such a way. The /
young man was firm as a rock. The /